British journalist Sami Hamdi detained in US under pressure from pro-Israel lobby | censored news

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56% : List of 3 recommended stories End of list Hamdi, a frequent critic of U.S. and Israeli policy, spoke at the CAIR gala in Sacramento on Saturday evening and was scheduled to speak at another CAIR event in Florida the day before he was detained by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
48% : Rumer and others said the escalation against Hamdi was by the RAIR Foundation, a pro-Israel pressure network whose mission is to oppose Islamic hegemony.
47% : This is an Israel-first policy, not an America-first policy, and it must end.
46% : CAIR said it stopped him at the airport after the far-right group Israel First Campaign.
46% : "Our country must stop kidnapping critics of the Israeli government at the behest of Israel's biggest bigots," he said in a statement.
34% : On Sunday, Shaun Maguire, a partner at tech investment firm Sequoia and an advocate for Israel, claimed without evidence that Hamdi tried to get him fired through an AI-generated email campaign: There are jihadists in America whose full-time job is to silence us.
31% : The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned Hamdi's detention at the San Francisco airport on Sunday as a blatant affront to freedom of expression, blaming his arrest for his criticism of Israel's war in Gaza.
31% : This morning, ICE agents kidnapped British Islamic journalist and political commentator Sami Hamdi from the San Francisco airport, apparently in response to his vocal criticism of the Israeli government during his ongoing speaking tour.
27% : Hamdis' supporters and civil rights advocates say the opposite is true and that the detentions are another example of political retaliation against Israel's critics, carried out at the border level before they can speak out publicly.
18% : This individual's visa has been canceled and he is being held in ICE custody pending deportation, she wrote to X. Hamdi has explicitly accused American politicians of actively encouraging Israel's genocide in the Gaza Strip and has been widely cited as a direct challenger to Western governments over arms transfers and diplomatic cover-ups of Israeli war crimes.

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